Limit high-capacity gun magazines

12:13 PM,
Apr. 19, 2013

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USA TODAY

The video is blurry, but you can make out the man in a trench coat firing 20 to 30 rounds at the White House as screaming tourists run - until he tries to reload his SKS semiautomatic rifle and bystanders tackle him, knocking him to the sidewalk and ending the incident.

This isn't reality TV or a scene from a movie. It happened on a sunny Saturday afternoon in October 1994, when a deranged young man from Colorado opened fire. As in many other such shootings, potential victims escaped death when the shooter paused to reload.

It happened again in Tucson in January 2011, when Jared Loughner killed six ...